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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!pravda.aa.msen.com!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!lerc.nasa.gov!purdue!mozo.cc.purdue.edu!expert.cc.purdue.edu!syserror From: syserror@expert.cc.purdue.edu (Aaron Bilger) Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.setup Subject: Re: SCSI PCI host adapter Date: 29 Aug 1995 03:54:28 GMT Organization: Purdue University Computing Center Lines: 28 Message-ID: <41u31k$b2t@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> References: <418r3m$9c6@trauma.rn.com> <41nie1$97l@trauma.rn.com> <Pine.LNX.3.91.950826195446.1755A-100000@goliath.csn.tu-chemnitz.de> <41spq7$72u@gazoo.sdd.comsat.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: expert.cc.purdue.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.periphs.scsi:36648 comp.os.linux.hardware:14760 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:5443 comp.os.linux.setup:18951 In article <41spq7$72u@gazoo.sdd.comsat.com>, Brian McEntire <mcentire@sdd.comsat.com> wrote: >>> But what if I want to boot of the SCSI drive connected to my NCR >>> host adapter? My motherboard is an Opti PCI/VLB 100 Mhz. >> >>You need an SDMS SCSI BIOS, either on your SCSI controller or in your >>system BIOS. Also you have to disable your IDE-Controller. > > >Why must he disable the IDE? I am about to buy a SCSI disk to boot and run >LINUX and would like to keep my 1.2 G EIDE drive in the system for DOS. Is this >impossible? If you really have your heart set on booting from SCSI and having the DOS on the IDE, you would have to put a small bootable DOS partition on the SCSI with device drivers to then recognize the EIDE. I do not think this would be worth it. The simplest way to deal with the situation is to leave the IDE enabled and the SCSI BIOS enabled. Then the EIDE will be the boot drive. With LILO on it, you could then choose to boot between DOS on the EIDE, or Linux on the SCSI; both would be recognized at boot time. Farewell- Aaron